Margaret Penn1

#2563, ( - 6 May 1480)
Father*John Penn2
Mother*Alice Fereby3

Family

Walter Roberts b. bt 1436 - 1442, d. c 1522
Children 1.John Roberts4 (bt 1464 - 1480 - )
 2.Elizabeth Roberts+4 (bt 1464 - 1480 - )
 3.Mercy Roberts4 (bt 1464 - 1480 - )
 4.Joan Roberts4 (bt 1464 - 1480 - )
23 October 1463 As of 23 October 1463,her married name was Roberts.1 
Marriage*23 October 1463She married Walter Roberts, son of John Roberts and Agnes Baker, on 23 October 1463.1 
Death*6 May 1480She died on 6 May 1480 at EnglandG.1 

Citations

  1. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165,166 (Oct. 2011, Jan. 2012): p. 56: "The 1592 and 1629 Roberts pedigrees state that Walter and his first wife Margaret Penn were married 23 October 1463 and that Margaret died 6 May 1480.[98] These dates also appear on a monument erected in the late 1700s in St. Dunstan’s church in Cranbrook.[99] Margaret was the daughter of John Penn, mercer of London,[100] who names his wife Alice, sons John, Thomas, and Ralph, and daughters Alice and Margaret in his 1450 will.[101]

    see also ancestry chart on page 66.
  2. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", Vol. 166, p. 56.
  3. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", Vol. 166, p. 56, cited in footnote "101 Will of John Penne, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 11 Rous, PROB 11/1, dated 18 July 1450, proved 7 September 1450."
  4. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", p. 58-9: "The Kent visitation pedigrees report that Walter had by his first wife, Margaret Penn, a son John and three daughters, Elizabeth married to Gervase Hendley, Mercy (or Mary) married to Linche then Saint Nicholas, and Joan married to Exhurst then Horden.[111] “John Robarth, age 16 and more,” was named as the heir of Margaret’s brother Ralph Penn in 1486, confirming John’s placement in the Kent visitation pedigrees.[112] The Sussex visitation shows just one daughter Elizabeth married to Hendley for this marriage.[113].

    Footnotes: "[111] Bannerman, Visitations of Kent [note 12], 2:24; Hovenden, Visitation of Kent [note 6], 94. [112] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII [note 19], 1:79. Further confirmation is given in Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VII [note 48], 1:249, which records the quitclaim by “Walter Robarth esquire and John his son, kinsman of Ralph Penne, to wit son of Margaret his sister” of the manor “‘Pennes place’ in Aldenham co. Hertford” and other lands to Humphrey Conyngesby and others on 14 February 1494/5. The 1592 and 1629 pedigrees ([note 13], 3, and [note 14], 186) include a detailed account of the surrender—under duress—of this land by Walter in right of his wife Margaret Penn and their son John. [113] Bannerman, Visitations of Sussex [note 17], 68."